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Leadership, Community Benefit, Community Partnerships, Recognition and Awards
Chair File: Hospitals and Community Benefit: The Stories Behind the Numbers
When we speak about hospitals and community benefit, it’s often a story focused on numbers. But it’s always about the people we serve.
Leadership, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), Leadership Dialogue
Chair File: Leadership Rounds — Talking Pandemic Preparedness and Equitable Care with NYU Langone Health Chief Medical Officer Fritz Francois
On this episode, I discuss emergency preparedness, caregiver resiliency and health equity — all through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic — with Fritz Francois, M.D., chief medical officer and patient safety officer at New York University Langone Health and a professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Leadership, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), COVID-19: Protecting Health Care Workers
Chair File: Ensuring a Culture of Safety to Protect our Patients and Care Teams
News coverage continues to show that many hospitals have been stretched beyond capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each wave has brought incredible pressure on our health care workforce, and the physical and emotional exhaustion is leading to ever greater staff shortages at hospitals.
COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics, COVID-19: Effective Communications Resources
Chair File: We Must Keep Sharing Our Stories as We Continue to Battle COVID-19
More school-age children have returned to in-person learning during the last few weeks. More employees are returning to their workplaces. Sports stadiums are filling with spectators again, and theaters and concert venues are welcoming back audiences.
Leadership, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), Leadership Dialogue
Chair File: Leadership Rounds — Talking Public Health and the COVID-19 Response with Trinity Health President and CEO Mike Slubowski
On this episode, I discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and public health infrastructure with Mike Slubowski, president and CEO at Trinity Health, a Catholic health system that serves communities in 25 states.
Opioids, Substance Use Disorder, Rural issues, Leadership
Chair File: Working with Our Communities to Stem the Opioid Crisis
The opioid epidemic has been an incredibly challenging public health crisis in communities across our country. And it’s clear the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges.
Leadership, Behavioral Health Care Delivery
Chair File: Words Matter in Providing Compassionate Care
And it’s not only what we say to patients and their families that matters but how we talk with care teams in private. Many times we may not even realize we are being insensitive or spreading stigma.
Palliative Care, Long-term Care, Leadership, Recognition and Awards
Chair File: Circle of Life Awards Recognize Innovation in Palliative Care
With the remarkable advances in health care, treatments for serious illnesses like cancer and diabetes are saving millions of lives each year and helping people live longer.
Leadership, Disparities/Equity of Care
Chair File: Supporting Hospitals on the Journey to Strengthen Diversity and Health Equity
AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity has been working for more than 25 years to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion by supporting hospitals, health systems, patients and communities. While the health care field has made some progress, we still have a long way to go.
Leadership, Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Leadership Dialogue
Chair File: Leadership Rounds — Talking Mental Health and Well-being with Robert Trestman, M.D., Chair, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Carilion Clinic
On this episode, I have an important conversation with Robert Trestman, M.D., chair for psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Carilion Clinic and a professor at the Viriginia Tech/Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va.